The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-20


yourself and tell them what it is doing for
thefarmers of North Carolina.
We are panied to learn of the death
of V. Q. Johnson, a member of the Board
of Aldermen of the city of Charlotte, and
for a long while the able and efficient SUI
perintendent of the c.. C. Railway. He
was of stern but noble mould.
The Admission Daily Hot Blast mn
to us %splendidly illustrated. The cuts are
executed in the highest style of the art,
and this issue of the Hot Blast is highly
creditable, not only to that lively town
and it's managers, but to Southern journ-
alism.
On Tuesday morning of last week,
while Hon. 7. G. Manning was in New
York attending the meeting of The
Peabody Association, death called him to
his final resting place. Thus passes away
another of North Cardinals distinguished
sons.
The University of North Carolina is
always ready to give aid to those in need
of it, and is now making preparations to
give a three months session to all school
teachers, free Of charge, for the purpose
of reviewing all the common school
courses.
Every farmer in North Carolina ought
to subscribe for TIE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
and find out what the farming classes are
doing. They are all waking up and start
ing out on a new plan. Read THE Pro-
GREssIvE FARMER and find out what that
plan is.
Extensive preparations are being
made at Asheville for the reception of the
President on the Dist inst. President
Cleveland will be the first President that
ever visited Asheville, and he will be re-
ceived with a cordial welcome by all the
Western North Carolinians and a part of
the Tennesseeans and some Of the South
Carolinians
The Lexington canning factory is a
growing industry in North Carolina. 1t
turns out about five hundred cans per day.
Manufacturing establishments are grow
ing very rapidly in North Carolina. That
is the best way for any State to gain
wealth. Let them increase; we love to
see the Old North State booming.
Thank you; thank you, kind friends,
for your handsome efforts on behalf of
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: That's right.
Build up you o"mr paper, and the way 10
do it, as for every one to help. Ask your
neighbor to subscribe for it. Show him
a copy and tell him how cheap it is, and
what you think of it. This is the way to
make it a success and to help along the
grand work in which it is engaged.
The more we travel, the more we see
Of farmers and farming in other sections
and States, the more are we convinced
that North Carolina farmers are fully
abreast with the best of them. But this
is not saying that our people are doing
we'll or prospecting, for it is undeniable
that the agriculture of the whole country
is languishing, and that the farmers of
North Carolina are financially in a bad
way.
We are indebted to the kindness of
our esteemed friend, Hon. r. F. Kolb,
Commissioner Of Agriculture for the State
of Alabama, for a copy Of a work just
by that State entitled Alabama as
it is. The Immigrants and Capitalists
Guide Book. 1t is in good style, well
arranged and full Of interesting matter re-
Iating to all the resources of that State.
It is a credit to the author and to the
State.
Some time since we enquired of a
prominent Johnston County farmer as to
the prospect for pork in his county the
season, and he informed us that
there were more hogs in that county than
at any time since the war. Now the dis |
couraging Intelligence ome to US that
cholera is raging with fearful fatality in
that county. We commend an article on
his subject, in this issue of our paper, to
readers. It sounds like there is ONE
of merit in it. AQN
1-As a true evidence that the South is
orospering, is the fact that there have
oeen thirty-three cotton factories estab-